The Chronicle: Anti-Intellectualism Enters Canadian Campaign, but Will It Fly?
Is “professor” a political insult? The Conservative Party in Canada seems to think so. It is portraying its main opponent in next month’s early election, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, as a nerdy, out-of-touch professor.
“I think they’ve spent too much time reading the U.S. Republican playbook,” said James Turk, executor director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
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